Baranavichy Radar Station

The Volga was developed by NIIDAR from the Dunay-3U radar. When the Dnestr-M radars in Skrunda were shut down in 1998 Russia restarted the construction of the Volga. One of the manufacturers was quoted as saying that two other Volga installations were once planned - one at Komsomolsk-na-Amur and one at Sevastopol. Another source says that a Volga was originally planned in Biysk in Altai Krai to provide coverage of China. ==Volga radar==

The station, classed as a 'Volga' type, is similar to a Daryal radar but operates on the UHF band rather than the VHF of the Daryal. Like the Daryal it has a separate transmitter and receiver stations which in the case of the Volga are apart. The radar has an Active Electronically Scanned Array, a type of phased array. It continuously radiates such that it is receiving and transmitting at the same time. The array consists of spiral radiators which rotate in different directions in the receiver and transmitter. The transmitter array is and the receiver array is . Both arrays are surrounded by a ferrite frame which absorbs radio waves. The Volga has a range of around and an azimuth of 120°, with elevation of 4° to 70°. Its GRAU index is 70M6 . ==The site==

The radar is 8 km north east of Hantavichy and from Baranavichy. It is in the Hantsavichy Raion of the Brest Region of Belarus. The military townlet for the radar is called Kletsk-2 (). When the station opened it was stated that up to 200 local Belarusians could be employed there. In 2007 Kommersant estimated that 600 people worked at the station. == See also ==